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AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL CULTURE 

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General Remarks which Concern YOU 

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The American College of Physical Culture 

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Offices, Suite 73 and 74 Journal Building, Boston, Massachusetts. 
College, 372 to 378 Boylston Street. 


E DUCATION is divided into two branches — 
Physical and Moral. More correctly might it 
be divided into three—Physical, Moral, and In¬ 
tellectual. Nothing is more certain than that the intel¬ 
lectual and moral powers may be educated separately; 
the former being amended while the latter are not, and 
the converse. Facts in proof of this are abundant. 
There is as real a distinction between moral and intel¬ 
lectual education as there is between physical educa¬ 
tion and either of them. Moral action, intellectual 
action, and physical action have their seats and instru¬ 
ments in different parts of the human system; and those 
parts are essential^ connected by sympathy, as well as 
other ties more mechanical and obvious, and they are 
all three so intimately connected, that the improvement 
of any one of them may be made to contribute to that 
of the others. One of them being injured or benefitted, 
therefore, the others are affected in a corresponding 
manner. Deriving their being and sustenance from 
the same source, and serving as elements of the same 
individual person, each of whose parts is necessary to 
the integrity and perfection of the whole, it would be 
singular were it not so. 

The organized system of man constitutes the ma¬ 
chinery with which alone his mind operates during 
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their connection as soul and body. Improve the appa¬ 
ratus, then, and you facilitate and improve the work 
which the mind performs with it, precisely as you facili¬ 
tate steam operation, and enhance its product by im¬ 
proving the machinery with which it is executed. In 
one case, steam, and in the other, spirit, continue un¬ 
changed; and each works and produces with a degree 
of perfection corresponding to that of the instrument it 
employs. 

Hence, physical education is far more important than 
is commonly imagined. Without a due regard to it, 
and a stricter and more judicious attention than is paid 
to it at present, man cannot attain the perfection of his 
nature. Ancient Greece might be cited in confirmation 
of this. If history and other forms of record be 
credited, the people of that country were, as a nation, 
physically and intellectually, the most perfect of the 
human race; and there is every reason to believe that 
their unrivalled attention to physical culture was in¬ 
fluential in producing the result. 

As mankind act from motives of necessity and in¬ 
terest much more than from those of any other sort, 
physical education, the chief source of superior strength 
of person, has been greatly neglected, especially by the 
higher orders of society, for two or three centuries. 
Knowledge being now the only ground of power and 
influence, intellectual education receives at present a 
much more exclusive attention than it formerly did, 
and much more than comports with the benefit of our 
race. 

The cultivation of bodily strength, in preference to 
everything else, would establish only the right of the 
strongest, as it is found to exist in the origin of society. 
To cultivate the faculties of the mind, exclusively, 
would produce only the weakness of sentiment or 
excess of passion. There is, for every individual, a 
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means of making all these dispositions act in harmony; 
and the due blending of physical and moral education 
alone can produce it. Let it be remembered that young 
persons will much more easily be withdrawn from the 
application they ought to pay to the study of the 
sciences, by insipid recreations and trifling games, than 
by the fatiguing exercises necessary for their develop¬ 
ment and the preservation of their health, which, how¬ 
ever, habit soon renders easy and delightful. 

An examination of the human frame demonstrates 
that it was intended for motion alternately with repose, 
and not for a state of absolute quiescence. Nor is the 
mind, which is furnished with so many faculties, and 
provided with so many organs of sense, which serve to 
connect it with the external world, less calculated for 
active exertion. Any attempt to contravene the laws 
of nature, which enjoin a reasonable exercise of mind 
and body, brings a punishment upon the individual. 
The mind, which he allows to be inactive, loses the 
capacity for exertion when required, and the body be¬ 
comes a prey to disease in some shape or form. Let it 
never be forgotten, however, that the physical educa¬ 
tion of the human race ought not to be alone confined 
to the humble object of preventing disease. Its aim 
should be loftier and more in accordance with the des¬ 
tiny and character of its subject — to raise man to the 
summit of his nature; and such will be its scope in 
future and more enlightened times. 

The general utility of exercise, then, will only be 
questioned by those who are not aware that the health 
and vigor of all the bodily organs depend on the pro¬ 
portioned exercise of each. In active exertion, the 
member exercised swells with the more frequent and 
copious how of blood, and greater abundance of heat is 
developed in it; and if we repeat the same motions 
many times, after intervals of repose, all the muscles 

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exercised become permanently developed; a perfection 
of action ensues in the member exercised, which it did 
not previously possess, and deformity by which it is 
affected is corrected, and strength and activity are 
acquired. That man, therefore, gains the most strength, 
who engages in muscular exercises that require the 
application of much power, but which are sufficiently 
separated by intervals of repose. 

The nature of the muscular fiber need not be dis¬ 
cussed here; it is enough for us to remark, that, to 
execute its functions properly, it must be in a certain 
state of tension, that it may be possessed of sufficient 
elasticity. A cord proceeding from a fixed point can¬ 
not influence a movable body till it be drawn tight; so 
a muscle cannot raise a limb unless it possesses a cer¬ 
tain degree of tightness. 

The difference in the power of muscles varies greatly, 
according to the state of health or disease, of the indi¬ 
vidual. If a muscle be taken from an animal in good 
health, it will not only bear a greater weight than the 
same muscle taken from an animal which has been 
long sick, but the former will be many days going into 
decay, allowing the weight to drop, while the latter 
will decay very speedily. To maintain the muscular 
fibers in the first condition, a due supply of blood and 
nervous energy is requisite. 

The great bulk of the human body is composed of 
muscle. If you look at the bare skeleton, composed 
chiefly of hollow bones, you will see how slender an 
outline of the human form it presents. The clothing 
of these bones, the closing of the cavities, the forma¬ 
tion of the special human outline, is the work of the 
muscles; the weight of the individual depends chiefly 
on them. 

If we could lay aside the protecting layer of skin and 
fat which envelopes the body, it would make very little 
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difference in its size, and we should then see the mus¬ 
cular body, red and well defined, and realize more fully 
how large a proportion of the body is formed by mus¬ 
cle. It is, as known in the flesh of animals, the lean 
meat. Its structure is regular and beautiful; we can 
form no idea of this structure from the meat which we 
cut at the table, because we generally cut across the 
grain. If we cut an orange in two, transversely, we 
can form little idea ofc its structure; but if we peel it 
and split it longitudinally, we then see at a glance the 
number of parts which compose it, the semi-transpar¬ 
ent membrane which encloses each division, the way 
in which they are united; then if we open one of these 
divisions we find inside the seed, and the juicy pulp; 
and even the pulp, now, will present quite a different 
aspect from the transverse section, for we see that it is 
arranged in little bundles or fibers lying side by side, 
and that each bundle is, itself, encased in such a delicate 
transparent membrane, that it tears and lets out the 
juice with every attempt to separate it. Thus by care¬ 
fully dissecting the orange, we get a totally different 
idea of its structure, than by simply cutting it through. 

Now, in the same way, if we could peel the human 
being of its skin rind, we should find the muscles 
below as well marked as the sections of the orange; 
•■each muscle carefully enveloped in its sheath of mem¬ 
brane, and lying across or beside other muscles simi¬ 
larly enveloped. The number amounts to several 
hundred, spread all over the body, infinitely varied in 
shape and size. Some are so large they almost cover 
the trunk, others so small as to be almost invisible. 
They are thick and short, long and slender, according 
to the view and object to be attained, and the part 
where it is to be attained. 

Muscles are mostly in pairs; and the layers which 
cover the right arm, correspond to those which cover 
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A very pronounced case of obesity as shown above. This student 
when enrolled in the American College of Physical Culture and Jiu-Jitsu 
had no chest development whatever. 


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As you will notice from the above portrait, the same student after 
exercising fifteen minutes night and morning, and following all the other 
methods of the American College of Physical Culture and Jiu-Jitsu, has 
reduced his waist measurement nine inches in six months, and has 
developed the chest and arm muscles, and is pronounced to-day in 
perfect health. 


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the left. So with those on the legs, and those which 
cover the face, neck, and chest. They are symmetrical 
throughout the body, most beautifully so, and the line 
of beauty is illustrated so perfectly in no part of the 
body as in the muscles. This whole assemblage of 
muscles, so varied, and spreading over the entire body, 
is the muscular system. Its grand object is movement. 

The principle on which exercise acts is evident, the 
immediate effect being an increase, both in the size and 
power of the muscles exercised, in consequence of an 
admirable law which obtains in living bodies, that 
(within certain limits) in proportion to the exertion 
which it is required to make, a part increases not only 
in strength and fitness, but also in size. 

Instances of the application of this law may be seen 
daily, by noting the effect produced on a person who 
takes regular, special exercise. . Not only is he im¬ 
proved in strength and dexterity, but the muscles, 
brought into unusual action, increase rapidly in size 
and vigor, so as soon to surpass those of the rest of the 
body which have been less employed. Nor does the 
beneficial influence stop here. If the exercise be not 
carried so far as to produce excessive fatigue, all other 
parts of the body sympathize with the improved condi¬ 
tion of that which is chiefly exerted; the circulation 
excited from time to time by the exercise acquires new 
vigor, and the blood being thrown with unusual force 
into all parts of the system, all the functions are car¬ 
ried on with increased activity, an improvement in the 
general health is soon manifested, and the mind (if at 
the same time judiciously cultivated) acquires strength 
and is rendered more capable of prolonged exertion. 

Having discoursed at some length on the important 
benefits to be derived from physical culture, and the 
direct action of exercise on the muscular system, 
whereby these benefits are imparted, we will now 
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describe some of the special means of exercise com¬ 
mon in this country, and the particular advantages of 
which our work alone treats. 

Of the various species of exercise, that of walking 
is the most common, for obvious reasons. The ma¬ 
jority of the American people, however, derive its 
benefits from force of necessity, as but a small propor¬ 
tion of them do any more of it than they are obliged 
to. Notice the cars of our metropolis — the majority 
of the occupants being persons of sedentary employ¬ 
ment, suffering in health from want of sufficient exer¬ 
cise; cooped up all day at the offices and places of 
business and then jammed into the crowded cars to 
breathe an air worse than the black hole of Calcutta. 
They sit down to dinner — is it a wonder that they take 
to the “ bitter” resort for an appetite, and the “ morn¬ 
ing call” to relieve the pangs of dyspepsia? 

Others are more judicious. Instead of bitters they 
prefer walking, which they find in the end a cheaper 
and more effectual appetizer, with a consequent health¬ 
ful nutrition. 

But walking is not a sufficient or proper amount of 
exercise for persons of sedentary occupations. Many 
finding this to be the case, and having no time or 
means at hand to adopt any other, resort to an undue 
amount of pedestrianism. In the end they find that 
this does not produce the results anticipated, that they 
gain no increase of muscular power in the chest and 
arms, and no development of these parts, so essential 
to a graceful form and figure. In fact, instances are of 
common occurrence, where the exercise of walking has 
been carried to such an extent as to produce unpropor¬ 
tionate development between the upper and lower 
extremities, owing to the well-known physiological 
fact that any undue exercise of particular muscles, 
only weakens the others. 

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This portrait is of a lady before using the methods of the American College of 
Physical Culture and Jiu-Jitsu. This lady was suffering from indigestion in a 
very chronic form. 


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This portrait illustrates the perfect figure of the same lady after four months’ 
treatment of ten minutes’ exercise each day, with the methods of the American 
College of Physical Culture and Jiu-Jitsu. 


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To those accustomed to gymnasiums and gymnastic 
exercises, the truth of this is clearly demonstrated by 
examples of disproportionate development of various 
kinds. In a complete gymnasium there is found a 
variety of gymnastic apparatus, too numerous to specify 
here, constructed with reference to the training of the 
entire muscular system. The gymnast, in his routine 
of exercise, after having fatigued one set of muscles, 
changes the apparatus to employ another set, and so 
on through the various evolutions on poles, bars, lad¬ 
ders, rings, etc., uniformly exerting his muscular sys¬ 
tem with the object of giving each particular part or 
member its proportional development. This is the 
proper method of exercise, though there are many to 
be found, in the gymnastic classes of every gymna¬ 
sium, who become devoted to some special exercise, 
or particular feat requiring the distorted development 
of some particular set of muscles to the detriment of 
the rest. Thus it is common to see disproportioned 
forms, in persons with arms that, in comparison with 
the rest of the figure, would suffice for legs, and legs 
disproportioned to the upper extremities. 

The majority of newly enlisted members of our 
public gymnasiums are young men, to whom exercise 
has been prescribed by some physician, as a medicine. 
It is a noticeable fact that nearly all of them are at first 
disproportionately developed, relatively between the 
upper and lower extremities, the latter in nearly every 
case preponderant. This is easily accounted for from 
the fact that walking has been their only exercise. In 
a short time, however, under the instructions of the 
American College of Physical Culture and Jiu= 
Jitsu the progress of the student begins to show it¬ 
self in the expansion of the chest, swelling of the 
muscles on the arms, breast, and loins, to their proper 
and natural development. The pads of the tailor are 
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no longer needed, and the shoulders are squared with 
sinews and muscle, instead of the artificial inventions 
of the “ ninth part of a man.” 

We have other means of exercise than the gymna¬ 
sium, in our various national sports, such as baseball, 
boating, and other manly pastimes; but these do not 
come within the reach of all. Men of business, or their 
clerks and employees, have no time to devote to such 
amusements, and even if they do take a few days, in the 
course of the year, to pull an oar or play a game of ball, 
the result is invariably a strain of the back, sprain of 
the ankle, twist of the wrist, or some other mishap, and 
a week or more following, of pain and misery. 

The fact of the case is, the American people seem to 
have no time to exercise, even if they have the means 
at hand. The gymnasium is always come-at-able, in 
most of our large cities, but the time cannot be spared 
to attend it. Thus physical culture is neglected, for 
want of time, as eating would be, did not the Almighty 
wisely provide for man’s negligence, by warning him 
with hunger, that he had neglected something. So 
has he provided for a warning and punishment to those 
who are neglecting their physical condition, which will 
come sooner or later. 

To those, then, who say they have no time for exer¬ 
cise, we heartily recommend our home lessons , which, 
in connection with a daily walk will be just exactly 
what is required to secure physical perfection and mus¬ 
cular strength, without putting yourself to but very 
little trouble to attain it. Ten or fifteen minutes daily, 
morning and evening, or to suit convenience it may 
not be so divided, but may all be taken in the morning, 
or all in the evening, will, in connection with walking, 
keep the muscular system in perfect condition, and 
thus insure perfect bodily health. To those who as¬ 
pire to more than ordinary development and strength 


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The above illustration shows a student, after using our methods, as a per¬ 
fect type of manhood. He has a perfect development, as the accompanying 
portrait shows. He has increased chest measurements four and a half 
inches; upper arm, two and a half inches; forearm, one and a quarter inches, 
and reduced waist measurement four inches; weight increased twenty-four 
pounds. 


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we can prescribe lessons, and you can attain what you 
desire to almost any limit. 

Exercise should never be taken immediately after a 
plentiful meal, nor should it be taken to excess, particu¬ 
larly during hot weather. In the former case too much 
cerebral influence for the time being expended in mus¬ 
cular action, the amount of it conveyed to the stomach 
is insufficient for the laborious function that viscus has 
to perform, and indigestion is the consequence. It is 
possible to fatigue the body beyond a proper point, in 
which case repose becomes necessary; but this is a 
rare occurrence compared with the instances of insuffi¬ 
cient exercise, or where the mind is stretched beyond 
its natural power to bear, by the ambitious student, the 
covetous and careworn merchant, or the adventurer in 
political life. 

Where older people have neglected exercise it is 
more difficult to induce them to resume its use, but 
some such device as the following may be tried. 
“ Ogul, a voluptuary who could be managed but with 
difficulty by his physician, on finding himself extremely 
ill from indulgence and intemperance, requested advice. 
‘ Eat a basilisk stewed in rose water,’ replied the physi¬ 
cian. In vain did the slaves search for a basilisk until 
they met with Zadig, who, approaching Ogul, ex¬ 
claimed, 4 Behold that which thou desirest! But my 
lord,’ continued he, 6 it is not to be eaten; all its vir¬ 
tues must enter through thy pores.. I have therefore 
inclosed it in a little ball, blown up, and covered with 
a fine skin. Thou must strike the ball with all thy 
might, and I must strike it back again, for a consider¬ 
able time, and by observing this regimen, and taking no 
other drink than rose water for a few days, thou wilt 
see and acknowledge the effects of my art.’ 

“ The first day Ogul was out of breath, and thought 
he should have died of fatigue. The second he was 
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less fatigued and slept better. In eight days he re¬ 
covered all his strength. Zadig then said to him, 
4 There is no such thing in nature as a basilisk! but 
thou hast taken exercise, and been temperate, and hast 
therefore recovered thy health.’ ” 

Our methods will be found as useful for those con¬ 
fined by the weather within doors during the winter 
months, as the ball of Zadig. 

By no means of exercise has such remarkable de¬ 
velopment of muscle and strength been attained in such 
a short space of time than by our methods. We will 
cite a few examples of this fact, and present portraitures 
of several celebrated athletes who owe their immense 
physical power chiefly to The American College 
of Physical Culture and Jiu-Jitsu. 

Should you decide to place yourself on our list of 
students, we will guarantee satisfaction. You will find 
each day a greater ability for work, and feel more 
capable to meet the demands of nature. Every organ 
will be made to perform its proper function, and you 
will acquire a constitution which will resist disease. 
Our method is especially adapted to cure 


General Debility. 

Anemia. 

Indigestion. 

Liver Trouble. 
Rheumatism. 


Insomnia. 
Nervousness. 
Kidney Trouble. 
Lung Disease. 
Dropsy. 



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American College of Physical Culture 


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STRENGTH TEST” 


How strong are you ? 

At what rate of speed can you work ? 

Have you good powers of endurance ? 

By taking our course of training you may answer 
these questions for yourself at home in your own room, 
without apparatus. 

Applicable to men, women, and children. 


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This student was suffering from spinal trouble, and is now cured. He has 
gained in the upper arms, forearm, and calf; has increased his chest measure¬ 
ment five inches, and reduced his waist measurement, and increased in 
weight thirty pounds. Age twenty-nine years; exercised fifteen minutes 
daily. 


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What Great Men Have to Say 
Regarding Health 


No stock company will give a surer and better re¬ 
turn for money than that invested in learning how to 
look after the health of your own individual body. 

“ By bodily exercise, we mean work done with the 
object of perfecting the human organism from the point 
of view of strength, skill, or health.” — Lagrange. 

“ All time and money spent in training the body pays 
a larger interest than any other investment.”— Glad¬ 
stone. 

“Great minds are often shut up in poor bodies.” 
— Ami el. 

“ Those who work with the brain more especially 
need a physical training, as systematic and persistent 
exercise goes far towards insuring immunity from the 
many ills that flesh is heir to.” — Dr. Reinecke . 

“ If the labor employed and the expense incurred by 
the women of to-day in using cosmetics and devices for 
the improvement of the personal, external appearance 
were directed to pursuit of the natural laws by which 
beauty is evolved, more lasting and satisfactory results 
would be obtained.” — Anderson. 

“The force of the understanding increases with the 
health of the body.” — Democritus. 

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A FEW examples of longevity in the human 
species, though no general conclusions can be 
drawn from them, may not be incurious to the 
reader. We shall not go back to a remote and obscure 
antiquity, but confine ourselves to more modern times, 
when the modes of living were nearly the same as they 
are at present. 

On this subject the celebrated Lord Verulam, in his 
“ Sylva Sylvarum,” gives the followingpassages, chiefly 
translated from the seventh book of Pliny’s Natural 
History. “ The year of our Lord seventy-six, falling 
into the time of Vespasian, is memorable; in which we 
shall find, as it were, a kalendar of long-lived men; for 
that year there was a taxing (now a taxing is the most 
authentical and truest informer touching the ages of 
men), and in that part of Italy which lieth between the 
Apennine mountains and the River Po, there were 
found one hundred and twenty-four persons that either 
equalled or exceeded an hundred years of age, 
namely: — 


Fifty-four 

of 100 years 1 

Fifty-seven . 

• • ,, no ,, 

Two. 

• • „ 125 

Four. 

■ • ,, 13° ” 

Four. 

• • » 135 or 137 

Three. 

. . ,, 140 


Besides these, Parma, 
whereof 

Three were . 

Two. 

One in Bruxelles . 
One in Placentia . 
One in Flaventia . 


1 particular, affords five, 
120 years each. 

130 >> 

125 ,, ,, 

13 1 » 

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A certain town then called the Velleiatium, situate 
in the hills about Placentia, afforded ten, whereof 


Six were . no years each. 

Four. 120 ,, ,, 

One in Rimino, whose 
name was Marcus 
Aponius. 150 ,, 


The most extraordinary instance of longevity in 
Great Britain was exhibited in the person of Henry 
Jenkins. He was a native of Yorkshire, lived to the 
amazing age of 169 years, and died on the 8th day of 
December, 1670. 

Next to Jenkins, we have the famous Thomas Parre, 
who was a native of Shropshire, and died on the 16th 
of November, 1635, at the of 152. 

Francis Consist, a native of Yorkshire, aged 150, 
died in January 1768. Margaret Foster, aged 136, 
and her daughter, aged 104, were natives of Cumber¬ 
land, and both alive in the year 1771. 

William Evans, aged 145, lived in Caernarvon, and 
still existed in the year 1782. 

Domitor Radaloy, aged 140, lived in Harmenstead, 
and died on the 16th day of January, 1782. 

James Bowels, aged 152, lived in Killingworth, and 
died on the 15th day of August, 1656. 

The Countess of Desmond, in Ireland, saw her 140th 
year. 

Mr. Eccleston, a native of Ireland, lived to the age 
of 143, and died in the year 1691. 

John Mount, a native of Scotland, saw his 136th 
year, and died on the 27th day of February, 1776. 

William Ellis, of Liverpool, died on the 16th day of 
August, 1780, at the age of 130. 

Col. Thomas Winsloe, a native of Ireland, aged 
146, died on the 22d day of August, 1766. 

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In all cases our prescriptions must be applied to the 
particular case as prescribed by the American College 
of Physical Culture and Jiu-Jitsu. 


TERMS 

The cost of the complete course, consisting 
of fifty lessons and fifty full-page half-tone 
engravings, by mail.$20.00 

Class course of ten students, with personal 
instructors, including American and Japan¬ 
ese methods. 50.00 

Private lessons by our instructors at your 

home.100.00 

payable in advance. This includes personal 
assistance and advice. 


American College of Physical Culture and Jiu-Jitsu, 

Offices, Suite 73 and 74 Journal Building, 

College, 372 to 378 Boylston Street, 

Boston, Mass. 


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NO. I. DEFENSE AGAINST BOXER. 


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“ A noble soul dwells in a strong body.” 

•' — Japanese Proverb. 


- BY-■- . 

American College of Physical Culture 

W E take pleasure in sending you this booklet 
which will give you a better idea of just what 
this science is, and what it means . We know 
you will find interest in reading it and in demonstrat¬ 
ing to your own satisfaction the effectiveness of Jiu- 
Jitsu, in its mildest form, as a means of self-defense. 

This is the first time that all the secrets of the Japa¬ 
nese national system of physical training and self- 
defense have been given to Western people. Less 
than a generation ago, you could not have obtained 
this knowledge at any price. So religiously have the 
principles of Jiu-Jitsu been guarded that no foreigner 
has ever before received official instruction from one 
who has taken the highest degree in the art. 

Jiu-Jitsu is the most wonderful system of physical 
training the world has ever known. It is a science. 
It is muscle dominated and directed in every detail by 
brain. The Japanese are the hardiest race of people in 
the world to-day, and we attribute their wonderful 
strength and power of endurance solely to the persis¬ 
tent practise of their national system of physical 
development. Jiu-Jitsu develops every muscle and 
strengthens every organ in the human body. It does 
not produce knotted muscles, but develops the body 
harmoniously and uniformly. It affects those minute 
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NO. 2. THROAT HOLD. 

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muscles which are not reached by any other system. 
It strengthens the heart action, scientifically renews 
and invigorates every tissue, and helps every organ to 
perform its functions. The man or woman who de¬ 
votes ten minutes daily to the practise of Jiu-Jitsu will 
enjoy a degree of health and strength that will make 
him or her thoroughly alive and fully conscious of the 
possession of" perfect manhood or womanhood. (The 
improvement of the average American pupil in from 
thirty to sixty days is as follows: Development of the 
chest, three to four inches; chest expansion, three to 
five inches; upper arm, one to two inches; forearm, 
one-half to one inch; thigh, two to three inches; and 
the entire body in proportion.) 

Jiu-Jitsu is also a natural and positive cure for con¬ 
stipation, indigestion, and all forms of dyspepsia, in¬ 
somnia, pulmonary troubles, and lack of vitality. Its 
practise improves the appetite, accelerates circulation, 
and aids assimilation. And to the increased vigor and 
tone of the system the brain responds, and the mental 
capacity as well as the physical is improved. The 
Japanese enjoy better health than any other nationality. 
With them consumption is very rare, dyspepsia has no 
meaning, and physical weakness is an affliction with 
which only the aged are beset. Extreme leanness is 
regarded in much the same manner as Americans re¬ 
gard physical deformity, and extreme corpulency is 
unknown. There is a reason for all this and it is found 
in Jiu-Jitsu. 

As a means of self-defense, Jiu-Jitsu is as potent at 
short range as the most deadly weapon that human 
ingenuity has devised. A Japanese skilled in this art 
has no fear of any form of personal attack. He will 
even defend himself unarmed against a swordsman and 
emerge from the combat victorious. The science of 
Jiu-Jitsu takes into account the vulnerable points in the 
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NO. 3. A HOLD THAT RENDERS AN OPPONENT HELPLESS. 


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human body. It comprehends the laws of mechanics, 
thus enabling the weak to overthrow the strong. One 
unskilled in the art is entirely at the mercy of the ex¬ 
pert Jiu-Jitsuian, no matter how unequally matched in 
point of size or strength the contestants may be. An 
opponent may be overcome and remain unharmed if it 
be the will of the operator, or he may be so seriously 
disabled by a slight pressure exerted at a vulnerable 
point, or a sharp twist of the arm, as to be rendered 
utterly helpless and unable to renew the attack. There 
are over three hundred methods known to the art for 
the disposing of a dangerous antagonist. 

Our course in Jiu-Jitsu teaches all the long-guarded 
secrets known to the science. It is identical with the 
course taught in all the Jiu-Jitsu schools of Japan. 
Nothing is omitted, not even the most advanced 
methods, — the “ coup de grace ” of the expert 
Jiu-Jitsuian. 

The cost of the complete course, consisting of fifty 


lessons and fifty full-page half-tone engravings, 

by mail.... -.$20.00 

Class course of ten students, with personal 
instructors, including American and Japa¬ 
nese methods. 50.00 

Private lessons by our instructors at your 
home.. . 100.00 


payable in advance. This includes personal assistance 
and advice. There is no other expense whatsoever in 
connection with the study and practise of this science. 
When you consider that this course teaches without 
reserve all the self-preserving secrets of Jiu-Jitsu as 
known to and practised by the masters of the art , 
and that it is, in itself, a library of reference on the Japa¬ 
nese method of health culture, deep breathing, bathing, 
and diet, the cost is infinitely trifling when compared 
with the benefits to be derived. 

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NO. 4. STOPPING A RUNNING FUGITIVE. 


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As we desire to quickly introduce this course and 
give it favorable publicity, we will enroll five hundred 
pupils at the special price of $20. After this the 
original price of $40 will prevail. We are pleased 
to extend this offer to you as we are sure you will 
be so enthusiastic about this wonderful system of 
physical training and self-defense that you will want 
to recommend the course to your friends. But you 
must act quickly, as the announcement of this course is 
received with universal favor, and at the rate enroll¬ 
ments are now reaching us from all parts of the country, 
it will be but a short time before the full five hundred 
will have been received. 

We shall welcome you as a pupil, and hope to know 
your pleasure by early mail. 

Respectfully, 

American College of Physical Culture and Jiu-Jitsu. 

Offices, Suite 73 and 74 Journal Building, 

College, 372 to 378 Boylston Street, 

Boston, Mass. 


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NO. 5. A HOLD PRECEDING A THROW. 


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JiWftsw 

Physical Training for Men 

is the Japanese method of Physical Training, 
has been practised by the Japanese for 2,500 
years. 

means “ muscle breaking.” 
is easily learned. 

helps the weak to master the strong. 

Physical Training for Women 

According to Japanese Methods. 

Japanese Physical Training for Children 

According to Japanese Methods. 

NOTE 

The first department of the course is devoted to 
twenty-five lessons in preparatory exercises designed 
to develop strength and endurance. They are supple¬ 
mented with special lessons in bathing, deep breathing, 
and diet. The exercises are productive of wonderful 
results, but they must be prescribed to meet the require¬ 
ments of each pupil. 

The last two departments are devoted to advanced 
methods of offense and defense. The exercises are of 
such a nature that it is inadvisable for the uninitiated 
to attempt to put them into practise without being first 
well grounded in the principles of Jiu-Jitsu. 

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JiWitsu 



NO. 6. USING OPPONENT’S LEFT AGAINST HIS RIGHT, ENDING 

IN A THROW. 


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As Seen by William E. Curtis. 

Correspondent of the Chicago Re cord-Herald. 

Tokio, July 21, 1904. 

One ot the chief reasons for the success of the 
Japanese in battle, for their nerve and endurance, for 
the remarkable physical vigor of the nation, for the 
low death-rate, and their material progress, may be 
found in the athletic exercises which are required of 
every child and are continued through life by a large 
proportion of the population. Jiu-Jitsu, the noble 
science of self-defense (“the gentle art,” to translate 
the word literally), may be called the national sport, 
and has been of incalculable advantage to Japan. 
Everybody, from the emperor down to the humblest 
coolie, is educated in it, and, as in everything else, 
there are those who excel. It is as much a part of the 
education of a soldier as the handling of a gun. No 
man can obtain a place on the police force until he is 
proficient in it, and if the same requirement were made 
in the United States the efficiency of our police would Japanese 
be immensely increased. O we 

The Japanese police, like the rest of the race, are J^ eir 
comparatively of diminutive stature. The burly Rus- ■ 
sian mujiks derided their opponents at the beginning of ji u .ji tsu 
the war by comparing them to monkeys, but they have 
discovered by contact that stature does not make 
a soldier, and those who have had experience with the 
police here have the highest appreciation of their 
proficiency. 

The other evening a drunken English sailor came 
around in front of the Grand Hotel at Yokohama and 
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NO. 7. HOLDING AN OPPONENT DOWN. 











made a disagreeable disturbance with foul and profane 
language and his desire to fight somebody. He was 
a monstrous, burly fellow, with a knife in his belt, and 
drunk enough to be reckless and desperate. His 
demonstrations soon attracted a natty little policeman 
in a suit of spotless linen duck, who was just about 
half the size of the sailor. The latter called him a 
“kid” and other contemptuous names, and promised to 
eat him if he did not clear out, but the officer did not 
pay the slightest attention to the jeers, and, to the as¬ 
tonishment of every foreign spectator, took him boldly 
by the arm and tried to lead him away from the terrace 
of the hotel, which was filled with guests sipping their 
after-dinner coffee. 

The sailor jerked away, and, shaking a fist as big as 
a ham at the pigmy policeman, warned him not to lay 
hands upon a free Briton or he would regret it. Then 
he made a vicious assault. 

In less time than I can tell it the sailor was flat upon 
his back in the road, only half conscious, and the little 
officer was tying his shaggy wrists with a cord he had 
coolly taken from his pocket. Then, blowing a whistle, 
he calmly awaited the arrival of assistance to take the 
sailor to the station-house. Before help came the giant 
seemed to recover his senses, and attempted to struggle. 
What happened to him I could not see, and do not 
know, but the officer was equal to the occasion, and 
ultimately led his prisoner away without the slightest 
show of concern or excitement. 

When we went back to our seats an old resident 
remarked: 

“ That was a very pretty exhibition of Jiu-Jitsu.” 

“Jiu-Jitsu? ” half a dozen people exclaimed. 

“Yes, Jiu-Jitsu, by which a small man can do a large 
man in an instant without losing his breath or quicken¬ 
ing his pulse beats. It is a science which teaches a 

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NO. «. ARM-BREAKING HOLD 

























man to turn his antagonist’s strength and fury against 
himself; it’s brains against muscle. You saw it done, 
as I have seen it forty times. The native police are 
trained for it. In the old days it was a secret of the 
samurai, or knighthood, but to-day it is taught in every 
public school in Japan, to girls as well as boys. There 
are hundreds of special schools at which it is taught, 
and I see that President Roosevelt has been taking 
lessons in the art. 

I have heard that Colonel Wood, the United States To be 
military attache, is ordered to make a report on the Taught 
subject for the benefit of the West Point Military p 0 j nt 
Academy. It is said that instruction is already being anc j 
given to the midshipmen of Annapolis. The police Annapolis 
force of every city in the country would increase their 
efficiency by including Jiu-Jitsu among their drills. It 
should be introduced into our schools, and certainly 
into every gymnasium in the country. 

Jiu-Jitsu is not a new thing, however. In Japan it is 
as common as eating or walking, and has been taught 
in the schools for generations. According to the tradi¬ 
tions the science was evolved by a thoughtful samurai 
(knight), having been suggested to him by seeing two 
kittens at play. He was the first teacher, and up to the 
Restoration every soldier was compelled to practise it. 

After the Restoration, with the craze for foreign ideas 
and methods, it fell into innocuous desuetude, and was 
practically obsolete outside of the army and the police, 
but about 1895, when the triumphs of the Japanese 
army in China revived the national spirit and pride, a 
national athletic association was organized under the 
patronage of the emperor for the purpose of cultivating 
Jiu-Jitsu. Prince Kan-in, a cousin of the Mikado, is 
the active president, all the young men of the imperial 
family take a prominent part, and altogether there are 
now 884,645 active members throughout Japan. The 
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headquarters of the association are in Kyoto, where, 
every spring and fall, tournaments are held, and local 
champions in all the different sports come in from the 
country to compete with each other for the champion¬ 
ship of the empire. Every country village and city 
ward has its little temple, club house, and instructors, 
and each its ambitious candidates for distinction, who 
go up to Kyoto to the imperial meets twice a year. 

There are minor tournaments at stated dates in all the 
provinces and counties. Representatives of the em¬ 
peror are always present to make the announcements 
and present the prizes. Each prize bears the emperor’s 
bust and autograph, and a legend signifying that it 
conies from him. People who know the devotion of 
the Japanese to their sovereign — they worship him as 
divine — can appreciate the value that is placed upon 
the medals awarded, and the enthusiasm which the or¬ 
ganization has evoked. It has caused a revival of in¬ 
terest in all forms of sports, especially in Jiu-Jitsu. For 
the last seven or eight years that science has been 
taught in every school in the empire, and is considered 
as important as reading or writing. The interest seems 
to have spread across the Pacific. I read in the home 
papers that experts have been giving exhibitions in the 
United States, and, as I have already stated, we are President 
told here that our President has taken it up. If he will Roosevelt 
make it fashionable, if he will encourage its introduc- anc l 
tion into our public schools, and he can do it if he will, J IU 'J* tsu 
he will confer an inestimable blessing upon not only 
this generation, but upon generations to come. 

We attended the annual tournament at Kyoto and 
saw the finest exhibition of Jiu-Jitsu }^ou can imagine 
by amateurs from every corner of the empire. Each 
afternoon, after the amateurs had finished, we had high- 
class exhibitions by experts. To our unsophisticated 
eyes it looked as if the men on the platform were not in 
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NO. 2. CHIN AND WRIST HOLD PRECEDING A THROW. 


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earnest; but they were. One of the professors of 
Jiu-Jitsu would stand in the center—some of them are 
men of slight stature and delicate appearance — and 
would play with the most robust and cheery young 
giants just as a cat will play with kittens. It was not 
ordinary wrestling. The contestants did not clinch 
with each other, and struggle and grunt, like the pro¬ 
fessional wrestlers, but the professor seemed to be able 
to throw his assailant to the floor almost as soon as the 
latter touched him, and seldom changed his position. 
His hands would go out, and he would often do some¬ 
thing with his legs, but the young men who attacked 
him were seldom or never able to get beyond his 
guard. We couldn’t understand why those impetuous 
athletes, who came toward the professor so boldly and 
vigorously, should find themselves the next instant on 
their backs about three yards away. Sometimes he 
would toss them over his head or shoulders, without an 
eflort. Then, after he had flung a dozen or more all 
around the platform, he would bow to the presiding 
officer, bow to the distinguished guests, kowtow to the 
emperor’s portrait and retire. 

“ Why didn’t those young fellows grapple him ? ” I 
asked the Japanese gentleman who had been detailed 
to look after me. 

“ Impossible,” my chaperon would reply, “No one 
could grapple him any more than an amateur could 
pink an accomplished fencer.” 

“ Why not? They seemed to be stronger and more 
active than he.” 

“Certainly, they have greater strength, but he has 
superior skill, and uses that skill to turn their strength 
and impetuosity against themselves. You may have 
noticed, perhaps, that the fiercer an assailant went at 
him, the harder was his fall.” 

“ Yes, that seemed to be so, but I couldn’t under¬ 
stand it.” 

“ That’s the science of Jiu-Jitsu. It is the most 
perfect of all methods of self-defense.” 

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How 

an 

Expert 

Practises 

Jiu-Jitsu 



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NO. 3. NECK AND ARM HOLD- THE VICTIM IS HELPLESS. 


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JiWftsw 

Used on Hold-up Man 


Athletic Pedestrian Throws Assailant Bodily Into Street 


While porch-climbers and other sneak theives are 
reaping a goodly harvest during the carnival of crime 
which is now going on in Chicago, owing to the in¬ 
ability of the police to effectively cope with existing 
conditions, hold-up men and others of their ilk who 
work on the public highways are on the look-out for 
exponents of the dangerous “Jiu-Jitsu” science, who 
are evidently able to defend themselves against the 
armed desperadoes. 

By the judicious use of the Japanese art of “Jiu- 
Jitsu,” Fred Korepta, 9240 Houston Avenue, South 
Chicago, put to flight a highwayman who was armed 
with a large revolver. 

“ I need your money,” said the hold-up man, and the 
next thing he knew his intended victim, by a scientific 
application of “Jiu-Jitsu,” had sent him spinning head 
over heels into the street. He did not wait to insist on 
getting the money, but fled, leaving his revolver be¬ 
hind him. 


Clipping 
from the 
Chicago 
Examiner 
of 

Sept. 8, 
1904, 
showing 
practical 
application 
of Jiu-Jitsu 
as a means 
of defense. 





# 


NO. 4 





ARM-BREAKING HOLD. STUDENTS SHOULD BE 
CAREFUL IN PRACTISING. 


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' . gj$ £ 

How a Knowledge of Saved 

Sherlock Holmes’ Life 

An Account of the Life Struggle Between the Famous Detective and 
Professor Moriarty in the Mountains of Switzerland 

From Collier’s Weekly 

“This is indeed like old days, Watson. We shall 
have time for a mouthful of dinner before we need go. 
Well, then, about that chasm. I had no difficulty in 
getting out of it, for I never was in it!” 

“ You never were in it! ” 

“No, Watson, I never was in it. My note to you 
was absolutely genuine. I had little doubt that I had 
come to the end of my career when I perceived the 
somewhat sinister figure of the late Professor Moriarty 
standing upon the narrow platform which led to safety. 
I read an inexorable purpose in his gray eyes. I ex¬ 
changed some remarks with him, therefore, and ob¬ 
tained his courteous permission to write the short note 
which you afterwards received. I left it with my 
cigarette case and my stick, and walked along the 
pathway, Moriarty still at my heels. When I reached 
the end I turned and stood at bay. He drew no 
weapon, but rushed at me and threw his long arms 
around me. He knew that his own game was up, and 
was anxious to revenge himself upon me. We tottered 
together on the brink of the precipice. 

“I have some knowledge of Jiu-Jitsu which has more 
than once been of use to me. I applied its principles, 
and he, with a horrible scream, kicked madly for a few 
seconds, and clawed the air with both his hands. But 
for all his efforts he could not gain his balance, and 
over he went. With my face over the brink I saw him 
fall for a long way, then he struck a rock, bounded off, 
and splashed into the water.” 

I listened with amazement to this explanation which 
Holmes delivered between the puffs of his cigarette. 

“But the tracks!” I cried. “I saw with my own 
eyes that two went down the path, and none returned.” 

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<W**MIA>*«* 






NO. 5. WALKING-BEAM HOLD, MOVING BODY AND ARMS 
FROM SIDE TO SIDE. 

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From Boston Post, Thursday, Jan. 5. 1905 



“SECRET OF WHY 
HARVARD LOST” 


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(By the Timekeeper) 

Weep no longer. Harvard men, over the 
football defeats sustained by the Crimson 
the past season. 

The reason for the defeats has leaked 
out. The coaches were not incompetent, 
as has been charged. Favoritism was not 
shown. Harvard was beaten by Pennsyl¬ 
vania and perhaps by Yale because of no 
fault of her own. 

Harvard was beaten by Pennsylvania 
because of jiu-jitsu, and this Japanese 
art Is now the sport of the hour In Phila¬ 
delphia. 

‘'Pennsylvania beat Harvard because 
she understood more about the new Jap 
science," is the remarkable statement 
that has been made by Halfback .Rey¬ 
nolds. "My punting improved 50 per cent 
after I understood the art. My advice 
to all football players, especially all kick¬ 
ers. is to master jiu-jitsu. 

"If Haryard had paid more attention to 
this new Jap game," says Reynolds, "and 
less to football proper, she would have 
had a better season. 

"Two Japs have secretly and cunningly 
taught the Penn players the mysteries of 
the art. Jiu-Jitsu is especially- valuable 
to linesmen. Penn's light forwards had 
no trouble bowling over the Crimson 
giants because, understanding the tricks 
of the Jap wrestling game, they were 
able to put that extra little twist In their 
shoulders which would throw their op¬ 
ponents off their balance," he continued 

It is up to Scotty MacMasters to master 
jiu-jitsu. There Is no longer any need of 
experts trying to discover what ails Har¬ 
vard in football. When Reynolds’ state¬ 
ment is read by Harvard men, opinions 
will change of the football team and of 
the coaches. 




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President Roosevelt Endorses 

JmWftsu 


Adopted by the Strenuous at Washington as a Popular Pastime 


Ihe Jiu-Jitsu craze has struck Washington, and 
President Roosevelt is practising the Japanese system 
of physical training daily in the White House, says the 
New York Sun. Jiu-Jitsu, under the influence of the 
President’s example, has become the popular fad at the 
Capital. A number of society women are taking les¬ 
sons in the art. Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth devotes 
many hours to it, and recommends it to the smart set. 
Secretary Loeb has also been taking lessons and fre¬ 
quently indulges in this recreation with the President, 
who finds it a very accessible form of exercise, espe¬ 
cially when the weather is inclement or when he is 
too busy to devote more than a few minutes to physical 
training. 

There is little satisfaction for Secretary Loeb in a 
test of strength with the President, for Mr. Roosevelt is 
a good deal heavier than his opponent and much more 
muscular. Mr. Roosevelt, through persistent practise, 
has become an expert in the art of Jiu-Jitsu. As told 
in the news dispatches several days ago, he is anxious to 
have the art introduced into the course of physical 
training at the Naval Academy. Jiu-Jitsu can be prac¬ 
tised in an ordinary room with no apparatus, but the 
President usually takes his exercise in a large room in 
the basement of the White House. 

It is urged in behalf of the modern system of Jiu-Jitsu 
that it is capable of being adapted to all classes of 
people and to both sexes. Women find it a very ac¬ 
ceptable form of exercise. 

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LofC. 




Advantage of a Correspondence 
Course 



Personal 

Assistance Jiu-Jitsu could not be learned from text-books alone, 
and even though such books were available, but it can be 

Advice successfully taught by correspondence. It is inadvis¬ 
able to practise any system of exercises which has not 
been intelligently prescribed. It might be disastrous 
to practise Jiu-Jitsu without the assistance and advice 
of an instructor who will take into consideration the 
physical imperfections and weaknesses of the pupil and 
guide him accordingly. 

But Jiu-Jitsu is so unlike any other system of exer¬ 
cise that the teacher must know the requirements of 
his pupil in order to advise him or her what exercises 
to practise and what to avoid. No student will be ac¬ 
cepted unless his physical condition is such as to justify 
the belief that the practise of Jiu-Jitsu will, in every 
way, be beneficial. 


How is Practised 


The 

Practise 

of 

Jiu-Jitsu 

Requires 

no 

Self-denial 



Jiu-Jitsu is usually practised with a companion, al¬ 
though the preparatory and resistant exercises may be 
practised alone if desired. No apparatus whatever is 
required, and an ordinary room will suffice in which to 
perform the exercises. 

This plan of exercising with a companion is a most 
admirable one. It adds pleasure and zeal to the work. 
The practise of the modern s} r stems of physical cul¬ 
ture require a good deal of self-denial because there is 
nothing to keep up the interest. 

r S6i 



With Jiu-Jitsu it is entirely different. A tilt with a 
companion is regarded with a great deal of pleasurable 
anticipation, and in combat there is always that uncer¬ 
tainty of success in offensive moments which makes one 
keenly alive to the situation. Nor does it matter who 
the companion may be. Men of unequal strength, 
husband and wife, brother and sister, may join in a 
friendly contest and each derive equal pleasure and 
benefit. 



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American College of Physical Culture 


AND 


OUR SYSTEM 

is acknowledged by all who have tried it to be the only 
method that gives entire satisfaction. We will refund 
the course fee to any person who will follow our 
instructions, should we fail to help you. 


From the Boston Sunday Globe, January 22. 

President and Jiu-Jitsu 

Washington, D. C., January 21. 

The President has directed the appointment of a 
General Board of Army and Navy Officers to consider 
and report upon the advisability of the introduction of 
the study of Jiu-Jitsu in the United States Military 
and Naval Academies. 


ft 


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No. (ORIGINAL) 

Enrollment Blank 

CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL CULTURE 

AND 

SUITE 73-74 JOURNAL BUILDING 
BOSTON, MASS. 

Date 190 

Please furnish me with your complete course in Physical 
Culture and Jiu-Jitsu, for which I agree to pay to your order 
the sum of $20.00, net. 


It is agreed that there shall be no further expense in con¬ 
nection with the study of this course, and I am to have the 
benefit of your counsel and advice during the study of said 
course. 

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State_ 

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AND 

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PAY NO MONEY TO REPRESENTATIVE UNLESS 
THIS CONTRACT BEARS OUR SEAL 

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To assist us in intelligently directing your studies and in prescribing diet, 
exercise, etc., which will be most helpful, kindly answer fully the questions 
below. 

Occupation.... 

Age_ Weight_, .. 

Height_Physical condition (robust or weak)- 

Are your lungs sound?_ 

Is there any indication of pulmonary trouble?_ 

How many inches can you expand your chest?- 

What is the condition of your heart (normal or weak) ?__ 

Is your appetite good?_.__ 

Have you any troublesome chronic disease?_ ; _ 

What is your physician’s diagnosis?_____ 

Do you take any form of exercise regularly?_ 

If so, what kind of exercise?_ 

How far do you usually walk each day?_ 

Do you feel refreshed or tired on awakening in the morning? 


Name the physical defect you desire remedied_ 

Which interests you most, physical 
training, health culture,,or 

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